While we humans shut ourselves in at home, nature flourished. Taking advantage of the suspended championship, a beautiful cannabis plant popped up in the stands of a soccer stadium south of Buenos Aires.
The fact that nature has been blossoming since humans holed up at home has become a veritable cliché of the current coronavirus pandemic. Now a surprising discovery has highlighted this phenomenon once again.
In the stands of the Atlético Brown club's stadium in Adrogué, south of Buenos Aires, a beautiful cannabis plant "had the audacity" to grow, a curiosity covered by various Argentine media and social networks in the country.
Tweeter Termo de Ascenso offered a play on words, "Endrogado en Adrogué", in a tweet that has received more than 5,000 likes and that marked the hemp plant's "presentation" to society.
However, the photo began to spark suspicion shortly after its posting: "Did the plant grow all by itself, or was it staged for the photo?" some inquired, wary.
The Uruguayan precedent
To answer the question, if we travel back in time to 2018 and cross the Río de la Plata, on the other bank, in the stands of the Estadio Campeón del Siglo (stadium), home of the Peñarol football team, another cannabis plant had grown too.
The difference, however, is significant: while in Uruguay cannabis is legal and is cultivated and sold by the state, in Argentina its consumption is still penalised. Of course, the little plants, like Nature itself, are oblivious to laws or borders. As they said in Jurassic Park, "life finds a way".